A couple of YouTube videos featuring amateur vehicle safety tests of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta involving children have been pulled for violating the platform’s policies on harmful and dangerous content — reports CNBC. “YouTube doesn’t allow content showing a minor participating in dangerous activities or encouraging minors to do dangerous activities,” a YouTube spokesperson […]
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.69 will start to deploy this weekend, but only to a select few according to the company head. The FSD beta update 10.69 contains “many major code changes,” said CEO @Elon Musk in a tweet on Thursday night. The tweet also detailed plans to release Tesla’s FSD beta 10.69 gradually […]
Tesla has emerged victorious in a lawsuit brought by Germany’s antitrust regulator alleging that the marketing around the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD), is misleading — reports Teslamag. This is far from Tesla’s first brush with concerns regarding how it advertises Autopilot and FSD. The result […]
Tesla has launched a new “Ownership Loyalty Program” in China that offers existing customers a 50% discount on the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) upgrade, among other things (via Not a Tesla App). FSD is an optional add-on comprising a suite of advanced driver assistance features. It costs $12,000 USD in the U.S. and 64,000 Yuan […]
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has alleged that the marketing around Tesla’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD), is deceptive — reports CNBC. Autopilot is a suite of driver assistance technologies that come standard on all of Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs). FSD, meanwhile, is a set of advanced driver assistance features […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a Saturday tweet that Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta version 10.13 could “maybe” start rolling out to the public by the end of next week. “Team is working hard on it,” Musk said in his response to a question about the update. Maybe end of this week. Team is working […]
Tesla started expanding its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.12.2 yesterday, and veteran tester Chuck Cook wasted no time putting the new release through the wringer in his signature “unprotected left turns” and sharing the results in a new YouTube video. Cook’s ongoing testing of unprotected left turns on the FSD beta continues to improve for […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a Friday tweet that the next iteration of the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta, version 10.12, will “probably” start rolling out next week on Wednesday, May 11, or Thursday, May 12. Musk’s tweet was a response to FSD beta tester @WholeMarsBlog, who commented that they never once had to […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk may be polarizing to some, and now a new candidate for Senate in California is using his bid solely to take Musk and the company’s Full Self-Driving program down. California Senate candidate Dan O’Dowd launched a multimillion-dollar television ad campaign on Tuesday to push for a ban on Tesla’s self-driving vehicles […]
Automotive marketing research and product consultation firm AutoPacific recently conducted a study gauging consumer perception of fully-autonomous vehicle technology. The study also surveyed participants on which of 56 automotive and technology companies they would trust the most, and the least, to develop safe and reliable fully-autonomous vehicles. 32% of respondents across all age groups picked Tesla […]
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta has been a cause for concern for safety regulators, and a new update shows that the automaker will issue a recall over one particular feature introduced in October 2020. Tesla’s FSD beta gained a ‘rolling stop feature at stop signs, where a complete stop does not happen. After meeting with […]
Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta tester oisiaa has shared his latest video, demonstrating how FSD beta 10.9 successfully drove him from a residential neighborhood to the emergency room at a nearby hospital with zero interventions on his part. While there were a couple of instances that felt uncomfortable to the beta tester with respect to […]
Tesla announced record Q4 2021 earnings today, and during the company’s update, it also shared some more details on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD). The electric automaker said, “the team continued to iterate on FSD Beta software, releasing seven updates throughout the quarter.” Tesla also revealed its FSD beta testers have now reached close to […]
Green Hills Software CEO and The Dawn Project founder Dan O’Dowd, who took out a full-page ad targeting Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software in the Sunday, January 16th paper edition of the New York Times, on Tuesday sat down for an interview on the CNBC‘s Squawk on the Street. O’Dowd at first steered the conversation towards the dangers […]
Just over a week ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the company’s Full Self-Driving add-on for Autopilot would see a price increase on January 17, 2022. The price for FSD will increase $2,000 USD to $12,000 USD in the United States only. Currently, FSD is priced at $10,000 USD and includes the following added features, […]
